Senate debates

Wednesday, 17 March 2010

Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Income Support for Students) Bill 2009 [No. 2]

In Committee

12:09 pm

Photo of Michael RonaldsonMichael Ronaldson (Victoria, Liberal Party, Shadow Special Minister of State and Scrutiny of Government Waste) Share this | Hansard source

I vividly remember being at two meetings in Corangamite organised by the Liberal candidate for Corangamite, Sarah Henderson, in relation to these changes when they were first floated. I remind everyone in this chamber that the first round of these changes disenfranchised young people who had finished school in 2008 and who were taking a gap year. Let us get this debate into some perspective. We started this fight on the back of 2008 students who had taken a gap year on the back of what they had been told by student counsellors and—

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